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Established in 1971, the International Potato Center (CIP) is a research-for-development organization headquartered in Lima, Peru, dedicated to enhancing food security, improving livelihoods, and promoting gender equity through the sustainable development of potato, sweetpotato, and Andean roots and tubers. Recognized globally, CIP operates in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, collaborating with numerous partners to deliver innovative, science-based solutions that address climate resilience and nutritional challenges.
The organization fosters a work culture grounded in excellence, dignity, respect, empowerment, integrity, diversity, innovation, and partnership, offering employees opportunities to engage in impactful research and capacity-strengthening initiatives. CIP's innovative business model emphasizes market-oriented approaches and strategic partnerships to drive sustainable agricultural practices and inclusive growth. As a member of the CGIAR research partnership, CIP continues to expand its reach and impact, guided by core values that prioritize social responsibility and community engagement. For more information, visit their website at www.cipotato.org.
Kampala, Uganda
Full-time
Sweetpotato Cooking Quality Consultant job at International Potato Center
International Potato Center
RTB Breeding for Quality is a part of the broader RTB breeding project that comprises activities aimed at integrating processing and eating quality of boiled sweetpotato in routine breeding, continuing the progress RTBfoods project (2018 – 2023) achieved. For sweetpotato, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA), instrumental texture analysis and draft consumer acceptability / rejection thresholds were among the main outputs. Under RTB Breeding for Quality, the application of these tools in routine breeding should be implemented to demonstrate their contribution to making breeding selections.
To extract sweet potato genotypes with superior quality traits from breeding populations using SOPs developed in the RTBfoods project (routine quality analysis of sweetpotato harvests)
To evaluate thresholds of acceptability / rejection of selected essential quality traits for boiled sweetpotato in Uganda
III. Deliverables
Develop consumer test questionnaire and present it to interdisciplinary team for review – product = final version of questionnaire
Retool trained sensory panel – final activity report
Train enumerators who will administer consumer tests – workshop report
Organise and conduct consumer tests and participatory processing quality tests in urban and rural location with selected panel of genotypes grown in Namulonge – field activity report
Conduct quality tests on samples used in consumer tests including descriptive sensory analysis– curate, collate, organize all quality data and draft report including results from consumer tests and participatory processing quality and develop models to validate cooking quality thresholds
Routine quality analysis of sweetpotato harvests – cooking quality report on genotypes from 2023B and 2024A harvests
IV. Time frame
Consultancy contract will be for 131 days.
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COMMERCIAL
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INDUSTRIAL
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RESIDENTIAL
BSc Food Science
Consumer-led food product development, food analysis
Sensory analysis, experimental design, surveys, data management, data analysis, report writing
At least 3 years experience
Conducting field surveys, statistical data analysis and interpretation, communication skills, interpersonal and leadership skills
Experience with potato and sweetpotato value chains is an added advantage
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